Bangladesh has climbed up 7 notches from last year and secured 91st position -- among 163 countries -- in Global Peace Index for 2021.

The government is considering launching a dedicated TV channel for students so that they can take part in the digital classes throughout the year, Education Minister Dipu Moni told the parliament today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will give 53,340 more houses to landless and homeless families as part of her government’s campaign to bring all such destitute families under housing scheme.

Jatiya Party MP Golam Kibria Tipu today demanded the release and acquittal of Nasir Uddin Mahmud, the main accused in the case filed by actress Pori Moni on charges of attempted rape and murder.

The parliament today witnessed heated debate as MPs from treasury and opposition benches locked horns to blamed each other over club culture, illegal consumption of alcohol and gambling.

Bangladesh’s first underground metro rail, known as Mass Rapid Transit Line-1 or MRT-1, is scheduled to be completed in December 2026, according to MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL).

Physical work of the country's first underground metro rail is expected to begin in March next year, authorities have said.

Two teachers of the anthropology department of Chattogram University have withdrawn their applications for promotions after being accused of plagiarising paragraphs from someone else’s Master’s dissertation in a research paper published in an international journal.

Bangladesh has expressed its strong willingness to become ASEAN’s Sectoral Dialogue Partner, said Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen during a discussion with the ASEAN countries’ heads of missions in Dhaka today.

The authorities of National University have decided to promote 316,676 first year students of 2019-2020 academic session to the second year.

A garment worker died after an old boundary wall collapsed on her at Ashulia area of Savar upazila this morning.

As young Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan along with three others remain missing for six days, his wife today urged the authorities to take steps for their immediate safe return.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told the parliament that journalists of both print and electronic media face uncertainty regarding their jobs, which is a threat for free media.

Child Daycare Centre Bill 2021 was passed in Parliament today in a bid to support working parents as the number of nuclear families is increasing day by day.

Police today barred a procession brought out by left-leaning student organisations -- demanding reopening of all educational institutions -- in front of the education ministry.

Three, including a garment factory worker, were killed in two separate road accidents in Gazipur.

UK government’s funding cuts to the world’s largest international non-governmental organisation Brac is like a “gut punch” after a successful 10-year £450m partnership, according to a director of the NGO, reports Guardian.

South Korea has decided to provide $700 million development cooperation loan to Bangladesh between 2021 and 2025.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said, the Special Security Force (SSF) will be developed as a modern force amid the changing patterns of crimes.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) today inaugurated ‘Police Covid Oxygen Bank’ with 50 oxygen cylinders to provide free oxygen to Covid-19 patients in the district.